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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Diaz's regime in a precarious position regarding positivist philosophy?
(a) Because it could not afford to support such a philosophy when the regime itself was so new.
(b) Because the common people vehemently opposed the philosophy.
(c) Because only about half the regime favored the philosophy.
(d) Because it adopted rather than fathered the philosophy.

2. What was the most radical period of the Revolution?
(a) The Obregon Administration.
(b) The Cardenas Administration.
(c) The three months leading up to the revolt.
(d) The Calles Coup.

3. What is the difference between the Mexican killer and the modern one?
(a) The Mexican kills a man, not an object.
(b) Only the Mexican killer expresses true hatred.
(c) The Mexican kills as an expression of love.
(d) The Mexican obliterates an object, not a man.

4. To which of the following does Paz reduce the Mexican character? (Chapter Four, page 73).
(a) The Mexican is stronger when he is alone.
(b) The Mexican is himself only in the crowd of a fiesta or ceremony.
(c) The Mexican only lives when he faces death.
(d) The Mexican does not dare or want to be himself.

5. As the closure to Chapter Two, the reader sees what shadow spreading out over Mexico?
(a) The shadow of Catholicism.
(b) The shadow of Nobody.
(c) The shadow of dissimulation.
(d) The shadow of truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Paz, why did the Revolution become a compromise?

2. In Paz's estimation, why do the common people follow their revolutionary leaders?

3. When does the pachuco become his true self?

4. Why are woman considered inferior people?

5. In Paz's philosophy, why must Mexicans face reality alone?

(see the answer key)

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